My Addiction To Home and Garden Television
Article by catwomanseven
They say that the first step to conquering any addiction is being able to first admit your issue. With that in mind, I should just come out and say it: I have an addiction, a bad one. Me, and my husband, are completely addicted to Home and Garden Television.
It started as just a few minutes of television before bed, then two hours later after watching couples flipping houses, changing rooms and even shingle grinding, we were completely hooked. Now, what used to be reading time has become HGTV time, and our movies nights are now used to eat popcorn while watching a couple of shows on Home and Garden. It’s embarrassing, if only because it’s cutting into our lives like the World Cup might do into a soccer fans.
If anything, I can say that this new addiction to HGTV has awakened a feeling that I haven’t had for a while: a need to spruce up the house. Now, I’m not going to flip my house and sell it for a profit (that seems like way too much work for me), or even add an extra room or something. No, I think I might go for redoing one of my rooms, like the kitchen, and adding a few more shelves to the closets. Of course, how fun this will be when I finally get to it will be determined.
By far the most addicting show on the Home and Garden Television network is House Hunters: International. This is a show where couples looking to move out of the United States to an international location search houses in a specific area to find the right one for them. For example, I recently watched a show where a couple from Minneapolis was looking to move to a location in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. So they traveled down there, met with a local realtor and looked over three different locations around the city.
What makes the show so addiction is a combination of a few things. First off, you get to see locations around the world up close. Secondly, you get to see the different styles of homes in an area, and view the tradeoffs that these couples have to decide on. And third, with it being reality television, because they are given an option of three different houses you get to root which house you would pick and critique their ultimate decisions. Isn’t second guessing the best part about reality television anyway?
About the Author
Author Kim Green loves to watch productive people improve their by shingle grinding and other useful tasks.
HGTV (the Home and Garden Network) did a piece on my gallery/bar in Charlottesville, Virginia. It aired April and June of 2007. Here’s the segment as recorded by a friend with a few audio glitches but mostly intact. It features the bar which was a huge light-table to display 2000 of my wildlife slides.